17th Century
A Woman of the Road (The Honest Thieves Trilogy)
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Imagine if Roaring Girl Moll Cutpurse joined Dumas’ Three Musketeers and you have the story of Margaret Tanner, who escapes her cruel father ...Read Review
Written in Their Stars: The Lydiard Chronicles 1649-1664
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1649: The beheading of King Charles I tears the Apsley family apart. Luce Apsley Hutchinson, who encouraged her husband John to sign the order ...Read Review
A Roll of the Bones
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Orphaned as a child, Nancy spent most of her life as a servant in the Gale household. Close in age to the family’...Read Review
Fierce Dreamer
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Artemisia Gentileschi (1593-1656) was raised in the almost exclusively male art world of 17th-century Italy. She had a natural eye for colour, texture, ...Read Review
Tyll
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Tyll Ulenspiegel was a German jester and trickster, and legend places his death in 1350. In this novel the German author Daniel Kehlmann has ...Read Review
Trailing the Hunter: A Novel of Misconception, Truth, and Love
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Norway, 1661. Clara has been tracking notorious witch-hunter Angus Hill, hoping to stop his murderous accusations of witchcraft that have already left many innocent ...Read Review
Mistress Yale’s Diaries, The Glorious Return (The Yale Trilogy)
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On her return from Madras, Catherine Yale continues her diary recording the events, politics and people of 1690s London. Her husband, Elihu Yale, ...Read Review
Charity’s Choice
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The English Civil War has yet to be won or lost, and while King Charles I is secure on the Isle of Wight ...Read Review
Fiona of Kinsale: A Tale of Irish Love, Battles and Secrets
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Fiona Gearaghty is growing up in Kinsale as Spain’s last Armada comes into port. Though she weds Thomas Lydon to conceal a ...Read Review
Blood’s Campaign
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In this third volume of the series, Holcroft Blood, on the Williamite Campaign in Ireland in 1689-1690, is ready to unleash cannons on ...Read Review
